On Saturday, 1 August 2015 10:31:43 UTC+1, RJH wrote:
A vaguely interesting point is made in the test report however,
referring to cheap ethernet cable not meeting LAN spec. Quite what that
means in practice, I'm not sure.

ICBW, but copper-clad alumin(i)um conductors (CCA) aren't Cat5 or Cat6 rated, possibly because they don't work well with insulation-displacement connectors.

The latest CPC flyer quite carefully refers to Cat5 or Cat6 cables with copper conductors, but CCA cable is just called 'networking cable' without any Cat claim.

Owain